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A tribute to the Ghost City

Mark my silence, dear readers, as a tribute to the thousands of lives lost during the last Mogadishu battle. The intense clashes that lasted for about two weeks between the American and Ethiopian-backed, yet inefficient, Transitional Federal Government (TFG) troops and the local clan militias cut a swathe through the entire city. With the scenes of turmoil, the putrid stench of the decaying corpses littering the streets, the looting and indiscriminate butchery reverberate in the minds of many almost as a re-enactment of the 1993 civil war.

In my previous post, Of Hope and Despair, the hope for stability and calm was slowly but gradually seeping out of my mind, though, in despair, I clung to it by a thread. Now even the last vestiges of hope I had of returning to a country I would call home, and every faith in it, have but evaporated. And so it must, for witnessing your country crushed to nothing and then suffering the humiliation of the systematic looting, extortion and rape of its people by uniformed troops forces even the most hopeful into despondency. And the world watches as the worst refugee crisis unfolds, indifferently, just as it still watches Darfur and Chad.

And what outcome would be expected when the dregs of humanity are armed, equipped, reinforced and given a licence to destroy everything that moves or speaks of nation!

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It is not fair to just blame the Ethiopian and its puppet TFG partner because as you mentioned, the insurgency – mainly the Hawiye, could’ve used political maneuvering to get what they wanted instead of starting a bloody war that have destroyed their people and city. Don’t get me wrong, I despise the Ethio-TFG the most, but I can’t give these self-admitted insurgency groups a pass for destroying Xamar and its people.

I ask myself, why is it always that Somalis can’t fix their differences through a diplomatic dialogs instead of war, war, and more war?

Somalians are cursed and some how our pple are paying the curse while we random abroad.Thats another curse by the way.All i can say about somalia is that i don’t care who my master will be,i don’t care what the president is,i don’t care what happens and all i care about is a government,i don’t care if its a good or a bad government.Just a government.

OM, i doubt that the “insurgents” are the ones causing all that havoc, but yes they are part of it. Though we do not have a clear indication as to how they fare on the scale, i think the Ethiopian led Government troops are worse, but i guess in order to instill some stability in a region that they are not welcome in, they will do whatever it takes.

p.s I despise the use of tribal names such “Hawiye” or “Abgaal” to segregate people. This has now recently been adopted by the BBC (somali service) too and the rest of the Media worldwide.

Citizen, what we are witnessing today is bad governance by a bad government. But despair not my friend, for if nothing else, their time will pass!

Shafi i was thinking about the pic above .Are those dead pple or displaced pple who are sleeping at the beach?Its confusing bruv.

U are right about the TFG,their time will pass and what really matters is the proper governance that will follow it when our pple will have to cast their own votes and elect their pple whom they see fit as to represent them.What worries me though is that hope being taken away, again.We simply are not ready for another war like the one that happened in Xamar.

Here is the thing, Im from Eritrea, and we have had issues with Ethopia for the past 5-7years even though we been apart for more then 15 years…..I tell you something Ethopia is trouble,with a capital T……if I was you guys, your government or whoever is in charge right now needs to get rid od the ethopian before its too late….You got to remember that Ethopain government have their own agenda, they might seem they want to help but dont trust that….Ethopia is blocked by Eritrea, Djoubiti, and Somalia, they got no coast, and if they could start war with us, eritrea,their brothers/sisters, the people that faught for independence with them……this aint nothing for them.

I hope things will get solved in Somalia, cause I feel more sad and sorry for all the innocent people, all the children that have to die, loss their parents, etc.Is just really sad, and it makes me think, what haven we, the people, what we have become?….is sad

No one despises tribalism/clanism more than me, but I used that term because there were guys who were being quoted in the press declaring that they’re the “spokenperson of Hawiye.” So as far as most people outside Somalia are concerned, the war has been framed as Hawiye vs. TFG/Ethiopia. And yes, it is really, really sad.

You are right sister, Ethiopians does have thair own agenda’s. But us Somalians can see that right now, I just hope it’s not too late for them to wake up and realize that we are ONE. The goverment doesn’t care about the civilians all they care about is having power. This goverment will do anything in their power to control the country even if it maens killing innocent people. Who brought the enemy in to our country?, Who killed our women and children?, who destroyed our country? This goverment who are pretending to care about the Somalian people. So aske your self next time you want to blame Hawiye for your own screw ups. we fight what we believe and some day Insha Allah (in Allah’s willing ) we will become the precident of Somalia again and show you how is done. No mater what you say or do can’t kill us all we are here in allah’s earth for a good reason.
SO FOR ALL THE HATERS KEEP ON HATING, CAUZE WE AINT GOING NO WHERE!!!!!!!!!!!

That image is devastating and so are the deaths and injuries reported everyday. In my mind, I understand that war is an industry and civil unrest continues to support this industry. I can’t think of any hope that Somalia has today. The TFG is no doubt orchestrating this latest destruction of Xamar but there are so many other agents and beneficiaries.